₦airaland Forum

By Ogochukwu Isioma


Former Governor of Abia and Senator-elect for Abia North Senatorial District, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu (MON) has secured a major oil deal with the Venezuelan government.

Igbere TV reports that Kalu secured the oil deal on Saturday in far away Caracas, Venezuela.

It comes a day after the Senator-elect announced that his Orji Uzor Kalu (OUK) Foundation had distributed 18 buses to some of his constituents, in line with the foundation’s empowerment policy.

Igbere TV had reported that the former governor and a few of his aides are in Venezuela on a business trip. They were received by H.E Martin N. Cobham, Nigerian Ambassador to Venezuela, upon their arrival.

Kalu, a Forbes-rated billionaire businessman, has been in the vanguard of empowering youth and creating jobs for the teeming Nigerian population over the years.

Aside being a philanthropist and politician, Kalu has built a business empire with vast investments in oil and gas, banking, insurance, media and publishing, real estate, agriculture, aviation, hospitality, shipping, construction, manufacturing and others operating under the parent company: SLOK Group. These business entities have on their payroll thousands of Nigerians and non-Nigerians.

Even though he is yet to be sworn in as a Senator, the billionaire philanthropist had on different fora, reiterated that his constituents will benefit a lot from his representation at the National Assembly.

The Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation is a household name in philanthropy as robust, responsive and sustainable initiatives aimed at complementing government’s efforts are rolled out from time to time for the betterment of the society.

The programmes of the foundation include peace advocacy, mentorship, women and youth empowerment, transport scheme, zero-interest petty traders’ loan, free palm seedlings and free medical scheme. The less privileged and indigents have benefitted in no small measure from the gestures of the foundation.

Recently, the foundation under its Agricultural Empowerment Scheme, empowered rural farmers drawn from the three Senatorial districts of Abia with over 450,000 palm seedlings.

Speaking at the launch of the programme at his Igbere country home in Bende Local Government Area, Kalu said that the initiative was his own support to President Muhammadu Buhari’s policy to revolutionise agriculture in Nigeria.

He said that the initiative was designed to encourage Abia farmers to go into palm plantation and other cash crops in order to create wealth.

“This is a sure way of creating wealth among the people of Abia. It is better than sharing money to them,” he said.

With the sealing of this new deal, the people of Abia, South-East, and, indeed, Nigerians at large, are sure of ‘better days ahead’, from the distinguished philanthropist cum Senator-elect.

More to follow...


* Photo Caption

From Right:

1) Dr. Frank Osita Chuks

2) His Excellency, Ambassador Martin .N. Cobham (Nigerian Ambassador to Venezuela)

3) Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu (MON), Chairman SLOK Group

4) Mr. Manuel Quevedo (Minister of the People’s Power for Petroleum and President of the Venezuelan-owned Oil Company: PDVSA)

5) Miss. Ugochi Ike Okoroafor (Personal Assistant to Orji Kalu)

6) Mr. Marcos Alejandro Rojas Marchena (PDVSA Vice President of Internal Affairs)

7) Mr. Guillermo Blanco. (Vice Minister of Refining and Petrochemical)

Mr. Alejandro Rojas (PDVSA Vice President of Trade and Supply)

9) Mr. Fernando De Quintal (PDVSA Vice President of Finance)

10) Mr. Rodolfo Jiménez (PDVSA Vice President of Refining)

Source: http://igberetvnews.com/690681/breaking-orji-kalu-seals-major-oil-deal-with-venezuelan-government-photos/

Cc: Lalasticlala, Mynd44, OAM4J

Oil deal to buy or supply them oil.
Venezuela that can't pay for any good or service and whose currency is now not worth up to a tissue paper.
These illiterate blog that don't construct proper sentences, obviously don't know what oil deals entail and how they work.

Congrats

Image laundry. Zero details about the supposed oil deal

Forbes-rated billionaire businessman is a falsehood except we are talking naira.


Kwantinu inugo

Stupid idea!

Venezuelans are high class con men...

seborrhic:
Oil deal to buy or supply them oil.
Venezuela that can't pay for any good or service and whose currency is now not worth up to a tissue paper.
These illiterate blog that don't construct proper sentences, obviously don't know what oil deals entail and how they work.

Bros, if peson do beta tin, hail am abeg.... must u criticize everything?

seborrhic:
Oil deal to buy or supply them oil.
Venezuela that can't pay for any good or service and whose currency is now not worth up to a tissue paper.
These illiterate blog that don't construct proper sentences, obviously don't know what oil deals entail and how they work.

So because a country is in crisis, the government can no longer sign business agreements?

An illiterate calling educated people illiterates, just like a mad man calling sound people around him mad

Kalu is a blessing in disguise.

Igbere liars. What number is kalu on the forbes list, and what year?

Spoils of war

Guestlander:
Igbere liars. What number is kalu on the forbes list, and what year?

Ignorance is worse than HIV

http://www.aitonline.tv/post-tony_elumelu_and_orji_uzor_kalu_makes_forbes_billionaires_list

[quote author=AmadiAba post=78506666]Ignorance is than hiv.

Agreed but show us the link to his position on the forbes website.

Tell me any forbes listed billionaire and I will show you his position right now. Why can't you simply do that rather than nonsensical rants.

Guestlander:
Agreed but show us the link to his position on the forbes website.

Calm down bros. See as your blood dey hot. He’s a multimillionaire in dollars.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/orji-uzor-kalu/#50de8b962e44

mrAMG2:
Calm down bros. See as your blood dey hot. He’s a multimillionaire in dollars.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/orji-uzor-kalu/#50de8b962e44

$330 million is not the same as a "forbes listed billionaire"

Now, who is ignorant? Who is lying or is it embellishment?

The truth, kanu is rich and listed as a millionaire but not a Forbes listed billionaire.
Honesty matters.

Guestlander:
$330 million is not the same as a "forbes listed billionaire"

Now, who is ignorant? Who is lying or is it embellishment?

The truth, kanu is rich and listed as a millionaire but not a Forbes listed billionaire.
Honesty matters.

Well he’s a billionaire in naira.

Whether someone says he’s listed as a billionaire or not does not matter.

What matters is that he’s recognized.

But why’re you taking it p though?

[quote author=Guestlander post=78506908][/quote]Arguing with u is a waste of time.

Orji Kalu's net worth hit over $1 billion in 2014 and was rated by Forbes as,one of the richest billionaires in Africa.

This news was reported by all major news platforms then.

It was published by forbes in November 2014

Guestlander:
$330 million is not the same as a "forbes listed billionaire"

Now, who is ignorant? Who is lying or is it embellishment?

The truth, kanu is rich and listed as a millionaire but not a Forbes listed billionaire.
Honesty matters.

Forbes rating is fluid and changes every year based on the current economic realities.

You can be a billionaire this year and drop to millionaire the following year.

When oil prices crashed from above 100 dollars to $20+, many billionaires where downgraded based on their current net worth.

This guy is a rabble rousing fraud. No be today.

AmadiAba:
Forbes rating is fluid and changes every year based on the current economic realities.

You can be a billionaire this year and drop to millionaire the following year.

When oil prices crashed from above 100 dollars to $20+, many billionaires where downgraded based on their current net worth.

When was Kalu ever listed as a billionaire?

Guestlander:
When was Kalu ever listed as a billionaire?

In 2014

Only an APC man can achieve this? Atiku show your handwork.

He is rich

like someone said up there oil deal to venuzuela... smart people would simply ask what in the world will venuzuela do with our crude oil, when they are also a major producers? again what will Nigeria do with venuzuela oil when we have enough to sell? all this politician that travel and visit their counterpart and snap pics just to decieve the gullible people that they signed memoradum of understanding for a contract or business

What of the court order mandating his arrest?

He is one of the new apc converts.

Ole barawo.

Are u telling us about the business deal or are u marketing uzo to Nigerians??

Is he selling to them? They have more than enough.. Maybe he's buying from them. But making deals with a Country that got two Presidents is a very bad one..

iammo:


like someone said up there oil deal to venuzuela... smart people would simply ask what in the world will venuzuela do with our crude oil, when they are also a major producers? again what will Nigeria do with venuzuela oil when we have enough to sell? all this politician that travel and visit their counterpart and snap pics just to decieve the gullible people that they signed memoradum of understanding for a contract or business

Does oil deal necessary mean importing or exporting to Nigeria or Venezuela?

Oil deal could mean exploration, upstream or downstream, it could mean lifting oil from Venezuela to other countries.

Dont forget that Orji Kalu is a major player in shipping industry globally and the President of World Ship Owners Association.

https://www.nairaland.com/2670499/orji-uzo-kalu-becomes-president-world

birds of the same feathers